Does Copying Culture Negate Church Growth?
Joel and Stu sit down to break down some statistics and why copying culture may not be the ideal church growth strategy.
Creating Christian cultural goods at the grassroots level
Both Stu and Joey return to the podcast to discuss Soul Revival's partnership with Miranda Congregational Church before talking about discipleship differences and Christians creating cultural goods
If your church is growing, it's because of God
Tim and Joel are joined Lewis, to chat Planning Day, young people in church strategy, church growth and measuring the success of a church leader.
From daggy to dangerous to desirable to delightful
Stu, Tim and Joel re-visit a previous episode to get Stu's thoughts on the importance of church.
Preparing for Soul Revival Church's 2023 Planning Day
The guys discuss plans for Soul Revival Church's upcoming 2023 Planning Day
Why is it important to go to church?
Brayden and Tim are on the podcast this week to discuss a question that Brayden was posed at Bible college - Why is it important to go to church?
Re-invent church a little to forge ageless friendships
Stu, Tim and Joel get into why it would be great to recapture the intergenerational elements of pre-Industrial Revolution village life and how generations since have experienced various forms of dislocation
Who's building the church? Who's influencing culture?
Stu and Joel talk about how Christians impact culture by expressing their identity in Christ
The Kingdom habitually undermines expectations and when good reasons go wrong
Tim and Joel engage in a wide-ranging and thoughtful chat on a wide variety of topics that includes, the Reformation, how we can make more space in our lives for God to make himself known, to discipling emotions, good reasons gone wrong and Tim's research paper.
Grow some weeds to plant some churches
Joey, pastor of Ryde gathering joins Stu and Joel on the pod this week to chat church planting
Fast track future leaders with a youth camp
Brayden and Ethan join the podcast to chat about Soul Revival Church's first ever youth camp - Origin and how it helps raise up leaders
What are we being distracted from at church?
Tim and Joel use a question from Tim's Effective Ministry podcast as a springboard into a discussion on why we come to church and what our expectations are for church
Costly discipleship combats culture's gospel veneer
"Not everyone has to do evangelism, but everyone CAN do evangelism" - Stu
Avoiding tunnel vision with discipleship and mission
"Not everyone has to do evangelism, but everyone CAN do evangelism" - Stu
Has the suburban identity colonised the church?
Stu and Tim return to continue their intellectual stoush. It leads to a discussion around the impact of suburbia from the 1950s onwards and the loss of community due to the subsequent individualism and materialism.
Is Bible college the only pathway into paid ministry?
Tim and Joel chat to Aaron Smith, of the Aspire podcast, second year SMBC student and Student Pastor at Anchor Church Northern Beaches …
False hope or real promise? Can church generations accommodate one another?
Stu, Tim and Joel continue to debate ideas around Stu's phD and the Four Views of Youth Ministry. Just like the book, Tim has his rebuttal ready and waiting…
Downright feisty? Creating a church that wants to keep changing
Stu and Joel look at how youth ministry shapes can shape churches now and in the future. Using Stu's recent revelations after re-visiting Mark Senter's downright feisty Four Views of Youth Ministry, they discuss what a church that wants to keep changing looks like.
Drop the cringe factor, authentically
Joel and Stu chat coming up with ideas and getting people onboard with those ideas.
Children are the church of today: Articulating strategy of children's ministry
Tim and Joel chat the strategy children's ministry. They look at a myriad of different approaches and discuss why Soul Revival practice intergenerational ministry as well as also age-specific ministries.